Michael Kubovy

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
92 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Michael Kubovy is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Kubovy has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 17 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Kubovy's work include Visual perception and processing mechanisms (32 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (13 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Michael Kubovy is often cited by papers focused on Visual perception and processing mechanisms (32 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (13 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (13 papers). Michael Kubovy collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Michael Kubovy's co-authors include James R. Pomerantz, John B. Pittenger, Johan Wagemans, David Van Valkenburg, Manish Singh, James H. Elder, R. von der Heydt, Stephen Palmer, Mary A. Peterson and Alice F. Healy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Michael Kubovy

83 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Perceptual Organization

1982 1.1k citations Michael Kubovy et al. profile →
A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure–ground organization.

2012 899 citations Johan Wagemans, James H. Elder et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Kubovy United States	32	3.4k	1.5k	910	699	362	92	4.8k
James E. Hoffman United States	35	4.2k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	726 0.8×	500 0.7×	595 1.6×	94	5.5k
David E. Irwin United States	43	5.1k 1.5×	1.5k 1.0×	782 0.9×	871 1.2×	598 1.7×	98	6.6k
Claus Bundesen Denmark	39	5.4k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	726 0.8×	667 1.0×	488 1.3×	106	6.2k
Kyle R. Cave United States	35	5.5k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	884 1.0×	1.5k 2.1×	438 1.2×	90	6.6k
James R. Pomerantz United States	22	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	759 0.8×	467 0.7×	622 1.7×	53	4.1k
Todd S. Horowitz United States	41	4.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	1.5k 2.2×	370 1.0×	114	7.3k
Kenneth R. Boff United States	13	2.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	443 0.6×	417 1.2×	35	4.5k
David Whitney United States	46	6.4k 1.9×	1.7k 1.1×	944 1.0×	955 1.4×	357 1.0×	196	7.7k
Iain D. Gilchrist United Kingdom	40	4.1k 1.2×	794 0.5×	548 0.6×	1.5k 2.1×	427 1.2×	176	5.7k
Steven Franconeri United States	36	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	677 0.7×	1.6k 2.3×	359 1.0×	125	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Kubovy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Kubovy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Kubovy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Kubovy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Kubovy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Kubovy. Michael Kubovy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kubovy, Michael. (2015). The Deep Structure of Lives. Philosophia Scientae. 19-3. 153–176. 5 indexed citations

Wagemans, Johan, James H. Elder, Michael Kubovy, et al.. (2012). A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping and figure–ground organization.. Psychological Bulletin. 138(6). 1172–1217. 899 indexed citations breakdown →

Berg, Martin van den, Michael Kubovy, & James A. Schirillo. (2011). Grouping by Regularity and the perception of illumination. Vision Research. 51(12). 1360–1371. 10 indexed citations

Jones, Catherine R. G., Daniel O. Claassen, Jeffrey R. Spies, et al.. (2011). Modeling Accuracy and Variability of Motor Timing in Treated and Untreated Parkinson’s Disease and Healthy Controls. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 5. 81–81. 26 indexed citations

Schutz, Michael & Michael Kubovy. (2009). Deconstructing a musical delusion: Point-light representations capture salient properties of impact motions. Canadian acoustics. 37(1). 23–26. 10 indexed citations

Gepshtein, Sergei & Michael Kubovy. (2007). The lawful perception of apparent motion. Journal of Vision. 7(8). 9–9. 36 indexed citations

Strother, Lars & Michael Kubovy. (2006). On the surprising salience of curvature in grouping by proximity.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance. 32(2). 226–234. 17 indexed citations

Gepshtein, Sergei & Michael Kubovy. (2004). Stability and change in perception: spatial organization in temporal context. Experimental Brain Research. 160(4). 487–495. 41 indexed citations

Valkenburg, David Van & Michael Kubovy. (2003). In defense of the theory of indispensable attributes. Cognition. 87(3). 225–233. 14 indexed citations

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Strother, Lars & Michael Kubovy. (2003). Perceived complexity and the grouping effect in band patterns. Acta Psychologica. 114(3). 229–244. 14 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael & David Van Valkenburg. (2001). Auditory and visual objects. Cognition. 80(1-2). 97–126. 265 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael & Dale J. Cohen. (2001). What boundaries tell us about binding. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 5(3). 93–95. 11 indexed citations

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Wagemans, Johan, et al.. (1999). Perceptual organization of Gabor lattices: Relations between Gestalt principles of grouping-by-proximity and grouping-by-similarity. Perception. 28. 1 indexed citations

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Wagemans, Johan, et al.. (1999). Interactions between grouping principles in Gabor lattices: Proximity and orientation alignment. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 40(4). 2 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael, et al.. (1999). Weakening the robustness of perspective: Evidence for a modified theory of compensation in picture perception. Perception & Psychophysics. 61(3). 456–467. 40 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael, et al.. (1999). Feature integration that routinely occurs without focal attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 6(2). 183–203. 35 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael, Alex O. Holcombe, & Johan Wagemans. (1998). On the Lawfulness of Grouping by Proximity. Cognitive Psychology. 35(1). 71–98. 141 indexed citations

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Bertamini, Marco, Jay Friedenberg, & Michael Kubovy. (1997). Detection of symmetry and perceptual organization: The way a lock-and-key process works. Acta Psychologica. 95(2). 119–140. 64 indexed citations

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Kubovy, Michael, et al.. (1983). Pitch Segregation by Interaural Phase, by Momentary Amplitude Disparity, and by Monaural Phase. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 31(9). 630–638. 4 indexed citations

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Healy, Alice F. & Michael Kubovy. (1978). The effects of payoffs and prior probabilities on indices of performance and cutoff location in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition. 6(5). 544–553. 77 indexed citations

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